 | The Development Set: The Character of the Journal of Development Economics 2002
Susan Anderson and Peter Boettke
Volume 1, Number 2, August 2004 In the field of development economics, thinking is dominated by researchers at the leading development assistance agencies—the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations, etc. But if the research agenda is led by the development agencies, the modes of discourse pursued by the JDE articles are framed by academic officialdom. The Journal of Development Economics 2002 reveals that while some of the institutional issues are getting play, the field has not thrown off its “Development Set” character. Instead of getting a field that varies methodological approaches and formulations on a case-by-case basis, we observe conventional methods addressing traditional “development economics” ideas, notably the dirigisme of diligent public servants, but in a more tentative and watered-down form.
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